Vol. 39 No. 4 (2014): Special Issue: Durkheim's Elementary Forms of Religious Life: Contemporary Engagements

• The Elementary Forms of Religious Life: Discursive Monument, Symbolic Feast

  Ronjon Paul Datta, Tara H. Milbrandt

  473–522

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Group I: Reading and Theorizing The Forms

• Les Formes élémentaires comme œuvre ​collective: les contributions d’Henri Hubert et de Marcel Mauss à la sociologie de la religion d'Émile Durkheim dans sa période avancée​

  Marcel Fournier

  523–546

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• Is Durkheim’s “Sociologism” Outdated? Debating “Individualism” in Contemporary French Sociology of Religion

  Lionel Obadia

  547–566

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• Durkheim’s Ruse: The Concept as Seduction

  Alan Blum

  567–594

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• The Elementary Forms as Political (A)theology

  William Ramp

  595–618

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• Challenging the Anthropomorphic Master Narrative in The Elementary Forms and Forging a More Materialist Durkheimianism

  Frank Pearce

  619–642

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Group II: Creative Deployments and Contemporary Analyses

• The Elementary Forms of Carnival: Collective Effervescence in Germany’s Rhineland

  Yvonne Niekrenz

  643–666

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• The Market Totem: Mana, Money and Morality in Late Modernity

  James F. Cosgrave

  667–696

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• Durkheim’s Sign Made Flesh: The “Authentic Symbol” in Contemporary Holocaust Pilgrimage

  Natalie C. Polzer

  697–718

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• Flags, Totem Bodies, and the Meanings of 9/11: A Durkheimian Tour of a September 11th Ceremony at the Flight 93 Chapel

  Alexander Riley

  719–740

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• Durkheim, Development and the Devil: A Cultural Sociology of Community Conflict

  Mervyn Horgan

  741–764

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Review Essay/Essai bibliographique

• Durkheim, The Durkheimians and the Arts

  Edward Tiryakian

  765–774

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Books Received/Livres réçus

• Books Received/Livres réçus

  Tara Milbrandt

  775–777

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